Meme and stuff

[mrissa]

I did this in greykev's journal, so I'm playing by the rules and doing it here:

respond to this in my journal and....
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

Except that there are a lot more of you on my friendslist than on Kev's, so I will do as many of those things as seem appropriate, at least including 1 and 7, and I exempt you from 8 if you do participate.

My plans for the evening include finishing writing another chapter of Zodiac House (edited to add: done!), finishing reading matociquala's book (Carnival, and don't you just love that I have to specify which one, Bear? I would think that would be a neat feeling), working out, scruffing the doglet's head, and finding something else to eat. I am really not all that good at feeding just myself when I try to do it in pieces. It's better for me to eat in pieces -- better for the hypoglycemia -- but that's only true if I don't suck at it. Which I do. I end up whining at my body, "Oh, come onnnnn, I gave you a salad two hours ago, what more do you want?" The second avocado had gone south. I had planned on eating that avocado. Now I have to think of something else. Wailie woe. This is the drawback to feeling antisocial when markgritter is out of town and timprov's sleeping during the evenings: when I make dinner plans with friends, not only do I get to see them, but there is a firm notion of Food To Eat. Also I haven't got any food projects for just me this week because I have food projects for other people. So. Um. I think this is why I keep banana muffins in the freezer. Not that you cared, now that I've typed all this.

In other news, I apparently have a new title, "The Knee-Capping Princess of the North." As a title rather than a secret identity, I do not believe this supplants any of my superhero names.

That is all. You may return to your homes.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*loff*

Thank you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Is this just loff over the book comment, or did you mean that I should meme you?

[eposia.livejournal.com]

I won't repost the meme, but I'll play here.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. It is extremely obvious when faced with this icon, but I like how you smile all the way and not just kind of the polite lip-twitch.

3. Dinner again! Or con hanging out again. Or something.

7. If it's not too personal, how did you get your goddessdaughter?

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Me, please?

J is reading Carnival too. It won't be my turn until he finishes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like how creative you are. I'm not sure that's the word I mean. I like how focused on creating you are? There are all kinds of things that you do to make stuff.

2. Happy Paddy song! I have no idea if I have the tune right, but I sing a happy Paddy song when I come upon it in your journal, and it makes me smile.

3. Dinner, lunch, brunch, coffee, something. I am flexible. If you were in town and not feeling foodish, we could sit in my library and talk, or we could go up to the Conservatory, or to the Falls if it was a decent day. Stuff.

7. What is your greatest hope for your daughter?

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pass on 8. I'll play! Your sandbox, respond whichever and however you want.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like it that you seem to be a genuinely warm and friendly person.

5. I remember standing and talking to you in the lobby at Minicon this year, with Judy R. and Neil different-R. I think that was the first time I met you in person? Maybe?

7. How did you get into radio in the first place? How did it become an interest, I mean.

Oooh! Oooh! Scruffs!

[missista.livejournal.com]

I like sheeps. Even meme sheeps. And scruffs.

Re: Oooh! Oooh! Scruffs!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We can play Sheep if you want. I'm almost done with this chapter, and then we can go play Sheep. Just keep being a good girl and lying on the bed -- or running into markgritter's office to post, I guess....

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

I know you don't know me well--or at all, really--but I'm curious to see what you come up with. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like that you're not being too shy to participate regardless of how well I know you! That kind of forthright behavior is appreciated.

7. What do you like best about lj?

[guipago.livejournal.com]

murrup?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. You are fierce. Not only do I appreciate my own fierceness, I also like it in other people.

3. We should grab lunch or something at Minicon this year, if you come to Minicon this year as your spousal unit said you would.

5. Corsets and conversation at World Fantasy. So jealous of the prettypretty corsets.

7. We don't really have an "always" yet -- "always, for the three months since I met you" -- hmm. Who and what was your first pet? the first one that was really yours and not your family's in general or something like that.

[ckd]

I'm curious to see what you have to say, but I almost certainly won't fulfill 8.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like your good-humor. You tend to not just enjoy yourself at the cons we've both been at but make it abundantly clear that you're enjoying yourself. That's a good thing.

3. Well, you know, I am a self-appointed Minicon evangelist this year....

5. Standing in line to fail to get kaffeeklatsch spots at Noreascon in '04.

7. Did you have a favorite childhood TV show? Or did you not like TV as a kid, or did nothing stand out? (I think of this because I have nothing I've "always" wondered and never asked, and so my brain supplied, "And what about...Naomi?" as a question.)

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain I qualify for memery, but whatever.

I like memes like this. They have potential-- a survey's a survey, a quiz is just a quiz, a sigh is... never mind, but open-ended character-driven writey things can become much bigger. They don't have to be (which is why I can reply without guilt) but there's room to stretch.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the way you do things your own way without worrying about original intent but still consider effects on other people.

3. Minicon evangelist dance. Come on! It's not far. Just right up the road.

7. If the fundamental things apply as time goes by, what are those fundamental things that apply?

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Fun meme! I'm in.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like your laugh. Some people have one-dimensional laughs, but yours is doing more stuff than that.

2. I don't know the name of it, but it's a reel.

3. Suuuuuushi! But that appears to be on the plans already, so I'll have to come up with something else. Darn.

4. I think you nailed this one with, "Normal. [hysterical giggling]"

5. We drove up and played games with you and mmerriam and the people whose lj names I don't remember, J&D. And we almost didn't go, and I'm glad we did.

7. What was good about growing up in Oklahoma? (For a more personal question, a Trip Down careswen's Spirituality Lane would work.)

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Oh yes do me! I would need a brain to do #8 so I won't, but I'm finishing some of my art-giveaway projects this week.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the jumble of interests you manage to synthesize.

2. Right now I am humming "Get Out the Map" whenever I'm reading your posts, but I suspect that is A Metaphor, which we all know are Bad For You.

3. Meet in person. I will not Minicon-evangelize you under the circumstances, but if we make it to your neck of the woods (not out of the question, as it is a pleasant and crowded neck), I will poke you about lunch or dinner or coffee or something. Widget-admiration. Etc.

7. Have you had any difficulty giving away any of the art-giveaway projects?

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I would love any of those. I might even do it myself, come the weekend. Certainly not before, unless my life is very different from what I currently expect.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like your willingness to dig in and see what's in there, for various values of "there."

2. Not a song or a movie but the story I wrote for you.

3. Not coming to Minicon, huh? Well, dinner, then, if we make it out there, which is not inconceivable.

7. (Not an always. There is no always.) What would you have named yourself, if you'd been in charge of it? Or what would you have named yourself if by some freak accident callunav had been taken on lj?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Sure. I think I'm too drained by being sick to repost the meme myself (or rather, I could repost it; I just couldn't deal with the resulting obligations), but I'll bite.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the way that your body language is still legible to me despite being in a different dialect from mine more or less completely. This means I can glance across an atrium and see your shoulders and know that someone has set you off on a theoretical point, or a worldbuilding point, or whatever, despite not actually knowing you all that well.

2. Neither of the above, but I keep looking for the Goldman book that was on your recommendations list awhile back. (Unfortunately, I keep not finding it when I look.) It has become "your" book in my head, not in the same place as your books, but still sensibly so.

3. Really, if everyone in this thread who was urged to come to Minicon did so, my life would be so happy.

7. What's your worst costuming failure, if any?

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Me. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I just love the way your accent comes back when you start talking about your parents or your childhood. That gets me every time.

2. Not a movie, but any time there's auto racing stuff on TV commercials etc., I think of you, and timprov has to patiently tell me when it's not the kind you like.

3. We should have lunch more often. Err. Together. Because I have lunch about the appropriate number of times per day, usually, but not very often with you.

7. (Again with the "always," sheesh.) What are you most looking forward to Spud being old enough to do?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Fish, as they say over in ways_back_room.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. Your voice sounds like citrus smells. I recognize this as an odd brain twitch, but in the mode of expression rather than in the sentiment itself I should think. And no, this does not mean you sound like a tart.

Also there is a goofy seriousness or a serious goofiness about you that makes me more willing to say something a little off like that than I probably should be given the amount of actual exposure to zwol-reactions I have.

3. [insert Minicon evangelist dance here]

5. I remember plunking down in that one set of chairs in the lobby at Minicon last year and talking to you and Pam. That was first, I think.

7. (I am still having grave trouble with this "always" thing.) Are you a planner or a play-it-by-ear person, and what in your life right now is running counter to that trend?

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Me, please, for whatever items you wouldn't mind doing. And I will repost it myself.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the way you take risks: sensibly. But there are still risks there. But you do it sensibly. See? Good stuff.

2. Dar Williams's "Traveling Again," even though some of it is not particularly lyrically appropriate, because of the tune/rhythm

3. Oh, let's hang out at your place! :) Maybe eat some of those little apple pastry things my parents talked about but markgritter's relatives never saw fit to mention.

7. What do you miss about living in Arizona? (This always thing: it is overrated.)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

No way am I doing 8, because it would eat my life, but otherwise sounds like fun!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the way you can be very direct without being tactless. (At least, I don't interpret it as tactless.)

2. Now "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World" does, because I never would have watched it if you hadn't been talking about it before Mike's memorial service.

3. Tea, lunch, breakfast, dinner, hanging out talking with no food or beverages involved. Or Montreal Stuff, or Minneapolis Stuff. I am flexible. (I am aimed at making it to your party if you have one this year, so. Opportunity.)

6. Things are in an uproar here and so I can't find the exact line, but your Narnia poem, about Susan, made my brain go like a struck tuning fork.

7. If not Montreal, where?

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite. No promises of re-posting, but I think that could have gone without saying.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like your tenacity. Not only has it combined with my tenacity to make AN UNSTOPPABLE DUO -- er, sorry, I meant to say a long-term friendship -- but it gives me confidence that when you talk about making something interesting like a painting or a marriage, it'll get made and not just kind of half-assed.

2. The number of songs and movies that remind me of you is truly boggling. This is what comes of spending our teen years together. Let's go with "Young Frankenstein," because it was one of the first ones you and me and Mike and Jackie watched when we started hanging out, and Pearl Jam's "Alive" due to the AcaDec State thing. But there are stacks and scads more.

3. Coffee. Again.

4. Hap-py.

5. There was this tall kid with a cowlick who was around Math Counts and Wits Clash and Knowledge Masters, so I was spending four afternoons a week with him. And we started joking around about having an answer, even if it wasn't the right answer, and, Scott, do you know that was sixteen years ago? Dude. We are so old. (I mean, more you than me. But still.)

6. "Oh, just eat it, it's good." Alternately, "Stand back! I'll handle this!"

7. There are still things I don't know about you after sixteen years. And there are new things I don't know about you that didn't exist not to know sixteen years ago. But the thing is, I don't think any of them qualify as always wondered. I think we finished up always wondered after the first decade or so of being friends. So if you were a tree, what's your favorite color?

3. Meet. In person. Someday.

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= Oh wait, I'm doing it all backwards.

Re: 3. Meet. In person. Someday.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you were going to do it backwards, you could at least say mean things about me!

Or maybe it's not that backwards?

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Me!Me!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like how you like my hair. Um, wait, that's not it. I like your voice.

2. Uff da. A lot of it. But right now I'm thinking of "The Long December."

3. We should go up to the Falls again. That'd be good.

4. It is, in fact, all about the lint.

5. The way you boggled when I blurted out, "You're John Carter of Mars! You're so cool!"

6. It's the one you dodged around: "I will not take these things for granted."

7. Always is a long time. Umm. How did you decide to go on your first trip to Hungary?

[howl-at-the-sun.livejournal.com]

I know we do not know each other terribly well at all, but I remain curious. So I am responding.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the way you speak your mind.
2. I don't know the title of this one, either. (Damned instrumentals!) It's a Norsk fiddle, and it's in 4, in case that helps at all.
3. Minicon '07! *grin*
7. Why the horses? How did you get into this breed in specific?

Blerg. belated Kev visits the party

[greykev.livejournal.com]

Me please?

Re: Blerg. belated Kev visits the party

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like the way you laugh when you're surprised by something funny. It's not that I have any problem with how you laugh when you're not particularly surprised, but there's a special Kev-laugh for when you are amused and startled simultaneously.

2. Movies movies movies, oy. The old song that reminds me of you is 10,000 Maniacs "These Are Days," because of sitting around your parents' basement back in the day, when you only had one tape the rest of us could stand and that was it. (Not that you had an abundance of tapes we couldn't stand.) The new one is Dar Williams's "You're Aging Well." And brother mine, we are.

3. When you get here, I will cook, and we can watch a movie or get in the hot tub or just hang out or whatever. Other stuff depends on timing, when you decide to come up or when we're in Omaha at the same time. I suppose we could all go somewhere else together, and then what we should do would depend on where. I don't have any particular plans at this point, but we'll see what comes up.

4. Tuesday!

5. I have some memories of trying to make amends for Jessi and Jenni being high school bitchy about your high school mustache, and of you sliding past in the halls too quickly to address, carrying books that might have been interesting but refusing to make eye contact. I really clearly remember being a little perturbed with Jeff for unilaterally deciding that he was going to say he was going to hang out with Scott and me and then deciding that we should hang out with other people I didn't know, but I remember how it smelled like late spring on your parents' back porch, and how you were...umm, how do I put this...less obnoxious than I expected for one of Jeff's friends.

6. I am doing really badly with this one, but I've been telling people when appropriate, "It would have been really inconvenient to have a brother in my childhood, so I have a Kev now instead. Much easier all around." But it is crass to quote oneself, I suppose.

7. How on earth did you find the Mobius trail, that first summer?